The UFC has seven events between October 17 and December 12, 2026: three numbered events, UFC 333, 334 and 335, and four Fight Nights. They move from Edmonton to Abu Dhabi, Las Vegas, New York and Doha, so the start times swing from 9:00 AM to 8:00 PM ET. Here is each card with its venue, its start times and the fights at the top, as listed by ESPN on October 8. Cards change, sometimes in fight week, so treat the bouts as the plan rather than a promise.
The calendar
| Event | Date | Venue | Prelims (ET) | Main card (ET) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buckley vs. Malott (Fight Night) | Sat 17 Oct | Edmonton (Rogers Place) | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| UFC 333, Volkanovski vs. Evloev | Sat 24 Oct | Abu Dhabi (Etihad Arena) | 10:00 AM | 1:00 PM |
| Moicano vs. Nolan (Fight Night) | Sat 31 Oct | Las Vegas (Meta APEX) | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| Bonfim vs. Brady (Fight Night) | Sat 7 Nov | Las Vegas (Meta APEX) | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| UFC 334, Gane vs. Hokit | Sat 14 Nov | New York (Madison Square Garden) | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
| Procházka vs. Stirling (Fight Night) | Sat 21 Nov | Doha (ABHA Arena) | 9:00 AM | 12:00 PM |
| UFC 335, Oliveira vs. Lopes | Sat 12 Dec | Las Vegas (T-Mobile Arena) | 5:00 PM | 8:00 PM |
The prelims time is when the first fight on the broadcast starts. The main event comes last, usually two to three hours after the main card begins.
October 17: Edmonton
The Fight Night at Rogers Place, home of the Edmonton Oilers, has a Canadian flavour at the top. Mike Malott, from Canada, faces Joaquin Buckley in the main event, and Jasmine Jasudavicius, also Canadian, meets Erin Blanchfield in the co-main. Edmonton runs two hours behind New York, which puts the main card at 6:00 PM local time.
October 24: UFC 333 in Abu Dhabi
The first numbered event of the stretch is a daytime show in North America. In Abu Dhabi the main card starts at 9:00 PM, which is 1:00 PM ET and 10:00 AM on the West Coast, and the prelims start three hours earlier. For viewers in the UK it is an evening card, with prelims from 3:00 PM and the main card from 6:00 PM.
Alexander Volkanovski, who has held the featherweight title, faces Movsar Evloev in the main event. Below them, Merab Dvalishvili and Petr Yan meet again; they have fought each other before. Ramazan Temirov and Lone'er Kavanagh are also on the main card.
October 31 and November 7: two Saturdays at the APEX
The next two cards are at the Meta APEX, the UFC's own smaller venue in Las Vegas, and keep the normal start times, prelims at 5:00 PM ET and the main card three hours later.
On Halloween, Renato Moicano of Brazil fights Tom Nolan of Australia in the main event, with Joe Kropschot against Nick Klein and Tainara Lisboa against Lucia Szabova lower down.
A week later, on November 7, Gabriel Bonfim and Sean Brady headline. Tatiana Suarez and Virna Jandiroba, two strawweights known for their grappling, fight in the co-main event. This card falls six days after the US clocks go back, so the main card begins at 1:00 AM UK time, as it will all winter.
November 14: UFC 334 at Madison Square Garden
The UFC returns to Madison Square Garden in November, as it has in most years since 2016. Ciryl Gane, the French heavyweight and former interim champion, faces Josh Hokit at the top of the card. The co-main is the fight many fans will tune in for: Amanda Nunes, a former two-division champion, against Kayla Harrison, a two-time Olympic judo gold medallist. Caio Borralho meets Yousri Belgaroui on the same card.
Expect the standard 5:00 PM ET prelims and the main card three hours on; at a big arena show in New York the headline fight usually starts near midnight ET.
November 21: Doha
The Fight Night at ABHA Arena in Doha is the earliest card of the stretch: prelims from 9:00 AM ET, main card from noon ET, which is 5:00 PM and 8:00 PM in Qatar. Jiří Procházka, a former light heavyweight champion, fights Navajo Stirling in the main event.
The same card has Aljamain Sterling, the former bantamweight champion, against Kevin Vallejos, which means two fighters with nearly the same surname on one bill. Brian Ortega and Dan Hooker are also scheduled.
December 12: UFC 335 in Las Vegas
The last numbered event of the year is at T-Mobile Arena. Charles Oliveira, a former lightweight champion, faces Diego Lopes in the main event, and Bo Nickal, a three-time NCAA wrestling champion at Penn State, fights Joe Pyfer. ESPN lists only a few bouts so far, so expect the rest of the card to fill in over the coming weeks.
Contender Series and the rest of the calendar
Dana White's Contender Series is a Tuesday-night show, with Week 10 of its tenth season listed for October 13. Fights there are for UFC contracts rather than rankings, and they are short cards of around five bouts.
Reading the times
A few things help when you plan around a UFC card:
- The main card start is fixed; the main event is not. Quick finishes bring it forward and long decisions push it back. When the main card starts at 8 PM ET, the last fight usually begins in the hour before midnight ET.
- Cards abroad move the whole schedule earlier for the Americas. Abu Dhabi and Doha are morning and midday shows in the US.
- The clocks change between these events. European clocks fall back on October 25 but US clocks not until November 1, so for the Halloween card London is only four hours ahead of New York, not five. That night the main card's 8 PM ET start is midnight in London.
On Buffstreams you will find each card on the UFC and MMA page, split into a prelims row and a main card row, with the times printed in Eastern Time and shown on your own clock. Open a row to see the feeds for that part of the card. Boxing cards for the same weekends are on the boxing page.
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Sources
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, October 17, 2026
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, October 24, 2026
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, October 31, 2026
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, November 7, 2026
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, November 14, 2026
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, November 21, 2026
- ESPN data, UFC scoreboard, December 12, 2026
